Daily Devotion: The Simple Logic of Christian Universalism

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This is how the little child in Africa who has never heard the Gospel in his or her life still receives salvation should they be killed.

This is the deathblow to exclusive, fundamentalist Christianity.

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Sunday Devotion: Father’s Day Reflections

Becoming a father has taught me the meaning of selflessness.

Becoming a father has taught me the meaning of unconditional love.

Becoming a father has taught me the meaning of self-sacrifice.

Becoming a father has made God make sense to me.

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Daily Devotion: Dividing Creation Right in Two

“Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they’re all confused.

Don’t these talking monkeys know that
Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly old monkeys,
Where there’s one you’re bound to divide it… right in two.”

-Tool, “Right in Two”

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Daily Devotion: “Let Them Die Before You. Deal With Them in Your Anger.”

But, is it the clay’s fault that it can’t take shape? …or the potter’s fault?

It’s the potter’s fault.

This is what is dangerous about fire-and-brimstone rants: it puts you in danger of making God sound incompetent.

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Daily Devotion: Made Right with God By Not Obeying the Law

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16. Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”

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